The full-upgrade appeared to go smoothly, but I'm noticing 3 problems afterward. I guessed the behavior change was not MATE-driven, since no MATE packages upgraded. However I repeated the full-upgrade on my oldest box, a 32-bit running Xfce: it now has the same version kernel (though 686-pae) but none of the following problems. My newest main workstation runs Cinnamon: I'd test on that, but I very much don't want to encounter the following problems on it.

The problems are, in order of increasing severity:

1. When I automount a non-encrypted external (USB) drive, I get a `sudo`-style GUI dialog with title=`Authenticate` and headline=`Authentication is required to mount [drive description] (/dev/sdb1)`. I did not formerly observe this behavior. More annoyingly, I get the same dialog when I dismount the drive, which seems quite excessive.

Any suggestions for how to disable this? I'm not seeing any affordances in MATE Control Center regarding removable drives (though I could be missing something).

2. Suspend to RAM, aka sleep:

2.1. I can no longer sleep this box with the `Fn-F4` keychord. Formerly that just went to sleep; now I get the screenlock dialog. Authenticating that gets just gets me back where I was (i.e., an unslept desktop).

2.2. If instead I do C-A-D, and click button=Suspend on the subsequent dialog, I get ... the GUI dialog again! with same title=`Authenticate`, but with headline=`Authentication is required for suspending the system.` After I authenticate as demanded, the box usually sleeps, but on one case it instead logged me out.

This is even more annoying--suggestions for how to restore the previous behavior (i.e., just go to @#$%^&! sleep when I tell you !-) will be greatly appreciated.

3. Network Manager:

For several years I've noticed that this box will fail to reconnect to wireless on waking: the Network Manager tray icon will appear normal, but attempts to use wireless will fail. (Unlike my newer main workstation, which does not have this problem.) In the past, this has not been a problem, I just used the Network Manager GUI to dis/reconnect the desired SSID. However, post-upgrade, when I use the Network Manager GUI to disconnect, I get a dialog with title=`Disconnect failure`, subtitle=`Device disconnect failed`, and body=